Video capture from gathering before first day, 9 May 2008, of "Convergence of the Real and the Virtual," The First Scientific Conference in World of Warcraft.

These video captures show the conference group gathering on the first day, before the session begins. Some shots include the user interface, some do not. The character whose view is shown is Liebenwalde(Henry Lowood).

"This is a scientific conference to be held May 9-11, 2008, inside World of Warcraft, devoted to research on WoW and on virtual worlds in general. It was proposed by John Bohannon, who creates the Gonzo Scientist feature for the AAAS journal Science. The organizer is William Sims Bainbridge, a social and information scientist, whose conference e-mail address is wsbainbridge@gmail.com." -- from the conference WIKI, http://convergentsystems.pbwiki.com/


This movie is part of the collection: Archiving Virtual Worlds

Producer: Henry Lowood
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: World of Warcraft; Blizzard Entertainment; Convergence of the Real and the Virtual; Science magazine
Contact Information: "Convergence of the Real and the Virtual," http://convergentsystems.pbwiki.com/ Preserving Virtual Worlds project, from How They Got Game project at Stanford University, http://howtheygotgame.stanford.edu

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

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